# Silly question on Parsing XML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-question-on-parsing-xml/212535>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 11, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-question-on-parsing-xml/212535 "2007-01-11T20:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![jrodichok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/57b2e6/32.png) [@jrodichok](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jrodichok)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/silly-question-on-parsing-xml/212535/1 "2007-01-11T20:36:53Z")

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I am having a bit of trouble parsing some xml data using a DOM parser. The problem is my XML feed the node names go like this \<yy:zz\>. And I cannot get the parser to recognize the node with the “:” in it. Is there a way to get it to recognize this node?